Rio is an excellent pundit. So is Danny Murphy. I don't particularly care for Henry although he can be informative at times. Keown and Shearer are dreadful and Savage is almost intolerable. I don't mind Lineker.

On ITV Bilic is obviously great. I find Wrighty to be entertaining personally and I think Lee Dixon is reasonably good at analysing defensive aspects of the game. But Karembeu and Petit don't speak good enough English, especially Karembeu. Hoddle just comes across as bitter and miserable even though he's fairly intelligent and obviously understands the game.

I'm just glad Chiles is gone. He single handedly made ITV unwatchable. The worst presenter in the history of sport.

The ESPN coverage has been good as well. Michael Ballack and Santi Solari are both brilliant. Kasey Keller is also good and I like Ian Darke and Taylor Twellman as a commentary pair.

If only a British channel would get Brooking and Brackley back together, the ultimate commentary team.

I just make up my mind about Ian Wright. Twat or good pundit? And I don't think the signing of Lothar Mattheus was a great idea either. Terrific player, but he doesn't seem to contribute much to preceedings. There can be no doubt in my mind, ITV's coverage turns into the Slaven Bilic show

I think the reason that ITV is better is largely down to Mark Pougatch. Not a bland ex player but a trained journalist/broadcaster who knows his onions and draws the best out of the guests. I am sure I have seen Lothar Matteus on other shows and he has been fairly one dimensional but I think Pougatch and maybe Slav are getting more out of him.

I very rarely bother watching the pundit panels, but I have seen bits of Slaven, just because it's Slaven and he's fun as well as knowing what he's talking about. ITV coverage gets marked down heavily due to Clive Tyldesley, who just irritates the hell out of me, though at least recently he seems to have cut down on the carefully rehearsed "ad-libs" that he used to try to shoehorn into his commentaries.

I think it's all about the panel line up game by game. Slaven is off course masterful and everyone seems to dote on him, particularly Ian Wright. I like Gary Murphy and also Rio is direct and insighful.Gary Lineker is becoming very hackneyed and we'll soon be micking him more a la Lawro. I know Souness is tied to SKY, but would have been great to see him on the couch.Of the foreigners (other than SB) being used, Lothar Matheus is quality once you re-interpret from his lack of english vocabulary.